Engineering Education Island: Teaching Engineering in Virtual Worlds
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عنوان ژورنال: Innovation in Teaching and Learning in Information and Computer Sciences
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1473-7507
DOI: 10.11120/ital.2009.08030002